Mx204 alternative

Mon Sep 2 16:02:06 UTC 2019

By the way they now say in this KB article that they implemented a «high performance mode» for MX204 / MX10003 with some «set chassis fpc slot high-performance-mode».
Anyone wiling to test? :)

> Le 2 sept. 2019 à 15:23, Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat at nuclearcat.com> a écrit :
> 
> From snabbco discussion, issue #1013, "If you read Intel datasheets then the minimum packet rate they are guaranteeing is 64B for 10G (82599), 128B for 40G (XL710), and 256B for 100G (FM10K)."
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> But "hardware", ASIC enabled routers such as MX might be not better and even need some tuning.
> https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB33477&actp=METADATA
> "On summit MX204 and MX10003 platforms, the line rate frame size is 119 byte for 10/40GbE port and 95 byte for 100GbE port."